Received 11/30/2009; accepted 12/8/2009. For correspondence and reprints contact: Wan-Yu Lin, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital. 160 Section 3, ChungGung Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)4-23741348, E-mail:[email protected] A case of renal insufficiency received Hickman catheter insertion for hemodialysis suffered from fever and...

A new partial cranium (UW 88-886) of the Plio-Pleistocene baboon Papio angusticeps from Malapa is identified, described and discussed. UW 88-886 represents the only non-hominin primate yet recovered from Malapa and is important both in the context of baboon evolution as well as South African hominin site biochronology. The new specimen may represent the first appearance of modern baboon anatomy...

Received 10/17/2005; revised 11/29/2005; accepted 12/1/2005. For correspondence or reprints contact: Ching-Yuan Chen, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Tri-Service General Hospital. 325 Section 2, Cheng-Kung Road, Nei-Hu, Taipei 114, Taiwan, ROC. Tel: (886)2-87927374, Fax: (886)287927217, E-mail: [email protected] Diffuse hepatic uptake of bone-imaging agent can be due to a variety of ...

5 CA 4 1. Institute of Neuroscience, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan 5 2. Department of Surgery, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan 6 3. Department of Education and Research, Taipei City Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan 7 4. Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, 8 Taiwan 9 5. Department of Rehabilitation, National Yang-Ming Uni...

Passive Remote Sensing is multi-spectral, rapid and high resolution, but it is very easily influenced by intended to the atmosphere conditions, such as fog and haze. In the past, there have been many studies removed the noise of cloud and haze. This study proposes to use the differences between five filtering methods to judge the differences between their efficiencies. Fast Fourier transforms a...

Received 7/15/2009; revised 7/31/2009; accepted 7/31/2009. For correspondence and reprints contact: Shih-Chuan Tsai, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital. 160 Section 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan. Tel: (886)4-23592525 ext. 4801, Fax: (886)423741348, E-mail: [email protected] We present the case of a 62-year-old man experiencing persistent f...

This paper develops a general equilibrium model with the banking system and the reserves market, where the central bank a¤ects the federal funds rate through open market operations. We show that when the coe¢ cient that measures the response of the federal funds rate to the in‡ation rate falls below a threshold value, which is very small, the economy will have two steady states, where the low-e...

Received 4/27/2007; revised 5/24/2007; accepted 5/25/2007. For correspondence or reprints contact: Ruoh-Fang Yen, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital. 7 Chung-San South Road, Taipei 100, Taiwan. Tel: (886)2-23562480, Fax: (886)2-23957855, E-mail: [email protected] Other than malignancy, benign processes, such as infection, inflammation and granulomatous d...

Received 8/9/2000; accepted 8/30/2000. For correspondence or reprints contact: Shyh-Jen Wang, M.D., Department of Nuclear Medicine, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, 160, Sec. 3, Taichung Harbor Road, Taichung 407, Taiwan, R.O.C. Tel: (886)4-23741349, Fax: (886)4-23741348, E-mail: [email protected] Adamantinoma is a rare low-grade malignant lesion that shows both epithelial and mesenc...

It is well known that the boosting-like algorithms, such as AdaBoost and many of its modifications, may over-fit the training data when the number of boosting iteration becomes large. Therefore, how to stop a boosting algorithm at an appropriate iteration time is a longstanding problem for the past decade (see Meir and Rastch (2003)). Bühlmann and Yu (2005) apply model selection criteria to est...